Emigration Act, 1983
23. Appeals.-
(1) Any person aggrieved by - An order of the
registering authority rejecting his application for registration or requiring
him to furnish any security or to comply with any term or condition (not being
a prescribed term or condition)specified in the certificate issued to him or
suspending or canceling or refusing to renew the certificates issued to him, or
an order of the competent authority rejecting his application for a permit or
requiring him to comply with any terms or conditions (not being a prescribed
term or condition) specified in the permit issued to him, or suspending or
canceling or refusing to extend the period of the validity of the permit issued
to him, or an order of the Protector of Emigrants rejecting his application for
emigration clearance, or an order of the registering authority or the competent
authority or the Protector of Emigrants or the prescribed authority requiring
him to furnish any security, additional security of fresh security under this
Act, or forfeiting or rejecting his claim for refund (whether wholly or partly
in either case) of the security, the additional security or the fresh security
furnished by him.
May prefer an appeal against such order to the
Central Government within such period as may be prescribed.
No appeal shall be admitted if it is preferred
after the expiry of the period prescribed therefor.
Provided that an appeal may be admitted after
the expiry of the period prescribed therefore if the appellant satisfies the
Central Government that he had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal
with that period.
The period prescribed for an appeal shall be
computed in accordance with the provisions of the Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of
1963), with respect to the computation of periods thereunder.
Every appeal under this section shall be made
in such form as may be prescribed and shall be accompanied by a copy of the
order appealed against and by such fee as may be prescribed .
The procedure for disposing of an appeal
(including remand of the matter for further consideration to the authority
whose order has been appealed against) shall be such as may be prescribed :
Provided that before disposing of an appeal, the
appellant shall be given a reasonable opportunity of representing his case.
Every order made on an appeal under this section
confirming, modifying or reversing the order appealed against shall be final.